Thesis: Norm

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Norm examines how degrees of agency over the algorithm can be handed back to the user.
Norm is an API built with modular deep neural nets, comprised of a corpus of historical texts, and hip hop lyrics. All of this running directly in the browser with no communication of what you write back to a server. Norm offers opportunities of authorship through control over curatorial algorithms and data embodiment. Played out in familiar instances of “autocomplete” across an arrangement of interfaces - it politicizes the curatorial algorithm as a cultural agent of knowledge production rather than simply a tool for information consumption.

The latest version of Norm will be released publicly in the new year

This version will have pre-trained datasets ranging from West Coast hip-hop to legal-advice, and more will be generated and added over time.

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Nick is a recent masters graduate of Art Center College of Design–Media Design Practices. Nick’s work investigates the politics of emerging technology and its relationship to society. He has exhibited in Los Angeles, the Netherlands and Milan. Nick holds a Bachelors in Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. PDF Resume